*** Youtube/Video thread ***

[dowie]

 

[albert]

My old i5 2500K still going strong in 2017 ....

 

[TheVoice]

I had wanted to visit here myself this year but ended up using most of my annual leave to move cities and jobs. One for 2018 I hope.

 

[Gerard]

When the Chimp recognizes her friend

 

[Mr Blonde]

Bloke makes a 9000 watt e-bike - check it out from 11:00 minutes in

HIhfwjWuj-I

 

[stopper]

 

[Angilion]

Bloke makes a 9000 watt e-bike - check it out from 11:00 minutes in

HIhfwjWuj-I

Over 9000!

9KW isn't all that much, but it's quite a lot too much for something designed for at most 5% of that.

The only powered bicycle I can think of that's more overpowered than that one is Colin Furze's jet propelled shopping bike.

 

[Gerard]

Imagine having to wait on that, apparently Jocky Wilson got fed up and grabbed a chair to sit on while this guy was throwing.

 

[Nate--IRL--]

Nate

 

[silversurfer]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-41790482

 

[stopper]

 

[IronWarrior]

 

[speeduk]

 

[dowie]

good to see some more comedy in the thread

 

[Smokey Deza]

Love this channel. Only 5 videos but they're totally worth the wait.

 

[Pixel]

Love this channel. Only 5 videos but they're totally worth the wait.

Video style is a blatant ripoff of bill wurtz's videos.

 

[unwashed potato!]

Video style is a blatant ripoff of bill wurtz's videos.

an improvement i'd say. i like this style of videos for how simplified they are, but the bill wurtz's ones are too quick and i almost learned nothing.

 

[Angilion]

an improvement i'd say. i like this style of videos for how simplified they are, but the bill wurtz's ones are too quick and i almost learned nothing.

I watched the Japan one and found it entertaining, so I went to his channel to see if he'd done any more. 40,000 years of history of an entire country in 9 minutes is rather overdoing the simplification, but I did learn a little and I was entertained. He's only done 1 other oversimplified history video and that's even more extremely oversimplified - 13.7 billion years of the history of the universe in 19 minutes. But it is entertaining and has some lovely little details. I particularly liked his reference to the trade in tin into the eastern meditterranean during the bronze age. With 3 seconds of narration (~5:16 to ~5:19) and a very simple scribbled overlay on a map he explains the likelihood that the tin came from Britain, gives a translation of the oldest known reference to the source of tin and explains that the source was deliberately kept secret by the tin traders. The videos are hugely oversimplified, but they're very well done. I'd watch more if there were more.

I agree that the other ones are an improvement, though, because they're not as extremely simplified.

 

[Hiijinx]

Bit of an old video but still a goodie, a German guy with tourette syndrome helped by cannabis.

Really touched me - skip to 2 minutes to see the miraculous transformation. The poor guy

 

[Nate--IRL--]

Nate